"The characters write the plot. Their natures do."

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Norman Rush

#Character Quotes #Writing Quotes #Plot Quotes

“Prior to being a Canadian, I'm also Middle Eastern.”

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“Businessmen, they drink my wine, plowmen dig my earth. None of them along the line know what any of it is worth.”
“You know, many a man realizes late in life that if when he was a boy he had known what he knows now, instead of being what he is he might be what he won't; but how few boys stop to think that if they knew what they don't know instead of being what they will be, they wouldn't be?”

Source : Stephen Leacock (2014). “Literary Lapses”, p.26, The Floating Press
“I tend to like poems that are short as well as funny. I love Joe Brainard and Aram Saroyan. And I think their sense of humor and minimalist approach are pretty radical.”

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“Just feeling free to walk out on stage and be myself is pretty damn significant.”
“What parents said they valued most were discussions with teachers and heads, and what they wanted was more descriptive information in their children's school reports. This is particularly true for primary schools. Parents wanted to know much more than just how their children were doing academically.”
“Imagine the first discovery that one of these epidemics was man-madeâ€”the panic, the violence that would ensue. Thatâ€™s where the end would come. A typhoon kills a few hundred people, does a few billion in damage, and what do we do?â€ Erskine interlocked his fingers. â€œWe come together. We put the pieces back. But a terroristâ€™s bomb.â€ He frowned. â€œA terroristâ€™s bomb does the same damage, and it throws the world into turmoil.â€ He spread his hands apart like an explosion going off. â€œWhen thereâ€™s only God to blame, we forgive him. When itâ€™s our fellow man, we must destroy him.”
“The concept, the label, is perpetually hiding from us all the nature of the real.”

Source : Joyce Cary (1961). “Art and reality: ways of the creative process”

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